healthcare reform

May 4, 2014

HEALTHCARE

6 Healthcare IT Transitions: The Hackers delight

From FDA (Food and Drug Administration) to FBI (Federal bureau of Investigations), they see a core issue bubbling up: The vulnerability of Healthcare systems to cyber-attacks. Both agencies have issued an advisory in this regard in the last 1 year. FDA Advisory was focused on medical devices and hos…

April 27, 2014

HEALTHCARE

At the Security Cross Roads of Health Care Reforms and IoE – 6 Health Care IT Transitions

The saying ‘Tell me how you will measure me and I will tell you how I will behave’ could have been the perfect tag line for the US Health Care Reforms. When we look at how Health Care Information technology is getting used to enable reforms, we see that most of the technologies existed prior to the…

January 31, 2013

GOVERNMENT

Telehealth Takes Center Stage

As my colleagues just wrapped up participating in the 2-day World Congress Telehealth Executive Summit and are preparing for the 6th Annual Community for Connected Health Summit at HIMSS13, I’ve been thinking even more about telehealth technology and how far it has come since my first exposure…